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Play With Children

Play With Children

Our sedentary styles of leaving and learning become a more difficult environment for children to navigate life successfully. Playing with your child is recipe for success and win win for everybody involved.

Play offers parents and caregivers a wonderful opportunity to engage fully with their children and help them meet important health and developmental milestones. The type of play and frequency of play that works for you and your family will probably look different than what works for another family, so find what works best for you and your child.

Play is the most important part of normal childhood, an integral part of healthy development and above all a simple joy that is a cherished part of every childhood. It can improve children's abilities to plan, organize, regulate emotions, get along with others and cope with stress.

Play with children can take many different shapes and include sports, acting, pretend games, board games, puzzles, video games, Legos, model building, pretending to have a picnic, finger painting, dress-up, or just goofing around. Playing can be also a playful approach to an activity that isn't always thought of as playful like: gardening, watering the plants, baking, cooking, washing family pets, making toys, or going for a walk and watching birds.

Keep in mind that play is one of the main ways children process emotions. Learning is best fueled by tapping into a child's natural urge to play, when they actively engage, joyfully discover their world and gain skills they will need in their future life. Modern skills are increasingly calling for teamwork and innovation.


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Did You Know?

If you need some dry material instantly you can use your microwave oven for making what you need. To dry herbs or flowers in the microwave oven instantly you will need SILICA GEL. Silica gel is a substance used to dry delicate flowers too, such as roses or calendula, as it preserves their forms and colors well. Silica gel can usually be found in craft stores.

It is very simple to dry flowers with a silica crystals, just use microwave safe container with a 1" (2,5 cm) thick layer of the silica crystals and place your flowers on the top allowing about 1-inch of space around the sides and between each flowers. Put another 1-inch layer on the top of flowers and then microwave on cca 50 % power for approximately 2-3 minutes, depending on the type of your microwave and flowers. It is better to check the material progress an add some more times if needed. Flowers and leaves often have different drying times, microwave them separately for better result.

Never use silica gel containers for preparing food after you use them for drying flowers, because they often absorbs pesticides from plants as they dry.


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